Person

Snyder, Allan Whitenack (1940 - )

FAA FRS FTSE

Born
23 November 1940
United States of America

Summary

Allan Snyder is Director of the Centre for the Mind at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering; Foundation Head of the Optical Sciences Centre and Professor of Optical Physics and Vision Research at the Australian National University in Canberra. His research covers the area of global mental processing.

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Chronology

1081 - 1983
Career position - Associate Editor, Journal of the Optical Society of America
1960 - 1961
Career position - Communications engineer at Peter Kiewett and Sons
1961 - 1963
Career position - Research Assistant at the Ionospheric Research Laboratory of the Pennsylvania State University, USA
1963
Education - BS (electrical Engineering), Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.
1963 - 1967
Career position - Senior Research Scientist in the Sylvania Applied Research Laboratory (General Telephone and Telegraph Laboratories) in Boston, USA
1965
Education - SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
1967
Education - Master of Science (MSc), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1967 - 1968
Career position - Consultant to the American General Telephone and Telegraph Company
1968 - 1970
Career position - Consultant to Post Office Research Department of Great Britain
1969
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University College, London
1969 - 1970
Career position - Consultant to Standard Telecommunications Laboratory
1969 - 1971
Career position - Senior Research Fellow in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, and Applied Physics at Yale University Medical School
1971 - 1979
Career position - Senior Research Fellow, then Senior Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University
1972 -
Career position - Consultant to the Advanced Techniques Laboratory of the Australian Post Office
1974
Award - Edgeworth David Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1974
Award - Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Excellence in Scientific Research
1977
Award - John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1978 -
Career position - Chair of Optical Physics and Visual Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Australian National University
1980 -
Award - Fellow, Optical Society of America
1980 - 1983
Career position - Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University
1985
Award - Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science
1985
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1987 -
Career position - Head of the Optical Sciences Centre at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Australian National University
1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
1990 -
Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
1991
Award - K. L. Sutherland Memorial Medal, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
1992 - 1995
Career position - Founding Director, Australian Photonics CRC
1995
Award - CSIRO Medal
1996
Award - Harrie Massey Medal and Prize, Australian Institute of Physics and Institute of Physics, United Kingdom
1997
Award - Australia Prize (in the field of Telecomminications) (joint), Australian Government
1997 - 2006
Career position - Distinguished Professor and Peter Karmel Chair of Science and the Mind, Australian National University
1997 - 2006
Career position - Foundation Director of the Centre for the Mind, Australian National University
1998 -
Career position - Foundation Fellow, National Vision Research Institute
1999 -
Career position - Director, Centre for the Mind, University of Sydney
1999 -
Career position - 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind, University of Sydney
2001
Award - Centenary Medal - for outstanding research in the physical and biological fields
2001
Award - Marconi International prize

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